Question 2

Question 2

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  How does yourmedia product represent particular social groups? Question 2.
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  2 Social Groups. Social groupswe have looked at and have revealed in our product. In our media production, we have decided to represent the following: (Relating to social groups) Class Gender Sexuality For this representation, we have both followed and battled against the stereotypes revealed throughout our media product. This will be explained thoroughly and in-depth throughout each page on the separate sections. In society, Social Groups have split into different categories such as Women, Men, Peers, The Elderly, Adults, Teenagers, Children, Friends, and Neighbors etc. We looked into this deeply to choose how we represent our social groups.
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  3 Class. Class is ‘asystem of ordering society whereby people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status.’ These classes are set upon; Working class Middle class Upper class Throughout our own media product, we have focused two of our own characters from the ‘middle class’ whilst we based our third character from the ‘upper class’ Upper Class Character Even though we had one character in our Upper Class, we decided to really focus on this character. We chose the killer to be the upper class character due to it becoming a fright and a cause of concern for the audience. For the costume, we decided to keep our character in a formal suit with formal shoes, his hair cut short, and this shows his formal look. The only thing about his outfit that is informal and not upper class is the clown mask. We did not have to worry about Dialect, as he does not speak, but more on behavior, as we had to keep him formal, smart and extremely sensible until the killing of the other character. Middle Class Characters. Our media product represents the two teenagers from a middle working class in the stereotypical way. The way we shown this were through, firstly the appearance. This appearance was based upon local brands that are not worn by the upper class such as Primark, Sport-Direct etc. Moving on from clothing, we decided to keep their hairstyles simple and natural looking instead of glamorous and neat which shows the realistic situation in everyday life. The behavior and dialect focused on was mainly to keep their attitude less aggressive and family like with manners, as we do not want them to be mistaken for the working class. The use of shortened words was acceptable, such as ‘Town speech’, as pronounced words would resemble the Upper Class.
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  4 Pellentesque viverra. Utsed odio. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Donec porttitor venenatis felis. Vivamus orci. Vestibulum rutrum tincidunt ante. Integer non sem. Donec enim diam, sagittis at, mattis nec, ultricies vitae, diam. Donec euismod turpis et diam. Nunc non nulla. Duis nec tortor. Nulla facilisi. In ligula lectus, nonummy nec, pulvinar id, pulvinar ac, nisl. Pellentesque purus. Proin tristique tempus turpis. Ut id lectus. Nulla facilisi. Mauris nonummy turpis id nisl. Fusce sit amet purus. Donec commodo, lorem id sodales congue, nulla lacus commodo mi, vel volutpat tortor augue id quam. Donec sit amet massa. Fusce at nulla. Aenean faucibus odio eget tortor. Pellentesque tellus. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Etiam nisl elit, venenatis consequat, auctor non, sagittis sed, arcu. Sed arcu ipsum, fringilla ac, blandit a, lobortis vel, risus. Proin pulvinar malesuada metus. Pellentesque gravida fermentum nibh. Sed libero neque, feugiat eget, condimentum eu, tempor in, erat. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus Gender. Gender is ‘the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones). The gender we looked at are set upon; Feminine Masculine Throughout our media product, we focused one of our characters in the stereotypical view of feminine, one on the masculine stereotype whilst our third character stays completely in the stereotypical masculine form. Feminine characters: The only feminine character is actually our biological female character. To begin with, the femininity shown was through her emotions and actions. These emotions and actions were once again placed in the stereotypical view as she was shown to be ‘fearful’, ‘reliable on her boyfriend’, ‘scared’ and ‘frightful’. The character ‘s clothes were also extremely important. The reason for the importance of her clothes, is that her own femininity fights against the stereotypes, as she is not shown to be wearing a dress and a cute little outfit but instead an outfit which shows more of a ‘masculine’ look with jeans and a similar bad boy jacket. Masculine characters: Our two biological male characters shown placed were in the stereotypical view with being ‘Masculine’. The masculinity shown was through the actions of these two characters. The actions were the way the Clown would walk with an aggressive stride with pride as well, whilst the Boy would look out and search out the problem to protect his girlfriend. Moving on from this, the appearance can be included mainly for the Clown. With the clown having a tight suit to show his features tightly on his body with the clothing, he shows the audience how strong he really is, as a masculine person would be in a stereotypical view. The other male character only shows this masculinity a little, with only the ‘Bad boy’ jacket. Other than that, the male character fights against the stereotypes with his actions.
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  5 Sexuality Noah and Ava’ssexuality: The first two main character‘s ‘sexuality is really focused upon. The characters Noah and Ava who are in a relationship in the media product, sexuality are both Heterosexual. This means that their sexual preference is focused upon the opposite gender. The way sexuality was shown, was through is through their attraction together and the registered actions between each other. These registered actions started from hugs, to slight kisses on the cheeks to then the male figure protecting his ‘loved one’. The female character Ava is shown to continuously move close to the male character with hugs and sitting close. The male character Noah is shown to kiss her cheek and become extremely protective over her own safety. Sexuality is ‘a person’s sexual orientation or preference’. These sexual preferences are placed into the following categories; Heterosexuality Homosexuality Bisexuality Asexuality Polysexuality Pansexuality. Throughout our media product, we have focused on sexuality due to two of our actual characters being in a relationship with each other. Our sexualities are shown mostly in stereotypical views. Clown’s Sexuality: In our media product, our Clown’s sexuality is shown to be Asexual, due to his revelation showing to not be interested in any sexuality throughout the film opening. This is shown in a stereotypical view as he is shown to be not interested in that manner and only murder. But then again his sexuality is kept ambiguous, as no one knows the reason behind or what happens after the killing of the female character Ava.
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  The End. Shannon Webband Demi Wrenn. Shannon Webb and Demi Wrenn CLOWN